Making a back up copy?

[Hussar]

I know most sites frown on any discussion of this kind of thing so I'll understand if the post is deleted

Whenever I buy a game I make a copy and put the original away in a safe place, esp when the games are rare. Often I'll leave it months before doing it but thought I'd do a 'working copy' of SB today. All the other games i have copy no problem (I understand 1 back up is legitimate) but SB won't? When I hit copy on the fly or image copy I get the buffer underrun start which then takes like 40 minutes to get to 17% and in that time it has written just 1% to the disk. I gave up in the end. Is this some form of copy protection built in to the disk? If so, fair enough I couldn't see anything about whether one copy is legit etc in the manual etc. If not, any ideas as to what's causing it.

[Sean]

Sorry,

I dont think this sort of thing is appropriate here. Lets just leave it at that.

[Kingsman39]

If this were a game that required the cd each time to run, I could understand needing a backup... This game runs from the hard drive.

[dejawolf]

and let's love it for that.
:D

[Ssnake]

No problem discussing this, especially since all US versions explicitly had no copy protection other than the printed manual. For reasons beyond me, the publisher for Germany and the UK decided to put the manual as a PDF on the CD-ROM, and since that might encourage piracy (smart thinking...) they also added a stupid copy protection to counter that. Might have been smarter not to put the manual on the CD in the first place, but well - that's what the situation is, so please blame the publisher and ask THEM for a solution. We've never even been asked.

[Hussar]

Hmmmmm. I have the UK Gold Edition and it only runs if the CD is in. Might try to contact them then. I did read in a review that it ran off the hard drive (one of few games that do now - it said) so I was quite surprised to find that it didn't. If I try to run the game with no CD I get a 'Please insert CD' or 'CD not found' message (or something like that). If it did run of the HD I wouldn't have bothered at all but I do get a bit paranoid about some games I get, esp those I import from the US.

When SB2 comes out I hope to be able to buy from the US and import it direct, either that or what for a company called Strategic Plus Software to get it (they specialise in US imports). We have a growing problem in UK/Europe in that the stores DEMAND DVD case packaged games which dictates that most publishers have to sacrifice the proper manuals that those in the US and elsewhere get. It sucks!!! These pdf things are a pain in the backside and quite crappy too. I bought another Stratgey Plus games (a Breakaway effort IIRC) called Austerlitz from Strategic Plus and it came as sold in the US - thick manual and CD in a wallet, nice to get the proper thing. Breakaway do a game called Waterloo as well and that's available in mainline stores BUT, DVD cased and no (proper) manual. I made the mistake of buying that from them. In each case I did a backup and they copied fine.

I'll see if I can get round it here another way, most third party publishers are (understandably) reluctant to tell you how to circumvent protection. Don't know if Just Play will be any different.